some good hillwork in to! Candy - I saw your post. Thats what prompted the question.Foggyone - I reckon that idea is worth exploring, Thanks. if you've got a speedo you'd be better off finding a 'flat' section of road.. pedalling up to speed
-day til easter, 'hillwork at altitude' no less. The GNR book came this morning very exciting. No ADSL in France so a once a day contact for me. Have a good day. I missed 3TL post yesterday - what did you do? I did a very depressing four miles before my
in the sunshine, then into the gym for stretches, weights and some hillwork and tempo running on the treadmill. Did 7miles altogether and don't feel too bad, despite xs red wine, spicy ribs, chips and early Easter egg chocolate last night (and that was after my
and hillwork - one mile on the treadmill at 5% incline exactly mimics the uphill section of the first Bridge in the race, and my legs got much stronger - hope this helps. DianaWhatever you do don't panic. Try not to make this into a physcological barrier. From
good hillwork in if you think this was easy.I would agree that there are no big hills but it is certainly a very undulating course and I always find the last three miles pretty tough.I have done this run several times and always seem to do a bad run
be to not overcomplicate your training at this stage. A lot of people talk about interval training, fartlek, hillwork etc. but basically if you keep on running the same distance as fast as you can week after week then you will certainly improve.I like your current schedule
again.If you do want to up it a bit, there are countless training schedules on this site for half-marathons that involve everything from sprints to hillwork to intervals to fartlek. But I'm less of a 'training Nazi' than some other Forumites. I think we
you return to the very activity which caused the problem in the first place...leading to a repeat of the problem when you reach the same level of trainingSo unless you have suddenly started training on concrete (ouch!) / sprinting / hillwork
the same thing. Ive heard it said that this makes it easier by breaking it up into manageable chuncks - its worked for me.As already said dont shy away from hills, relish them. The hillwork Will suggested is good, builts leg strength.One final point, you
of which was about 1/2 mile from the changing rooms/meeting point. Also we always preceded any speedwork/hillwork/fartleck etc with a lengthy warm up session. If it's interval work we jog to where we are doing it, maybe about a mile. Then a bit
